S3, E13: Adam Falkner on Queer Identity and Writing Our Internal Contradictions

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The Poetry Vlog (TPV): A Poetry, Arts, & Social Justice Teaching Channel

C. R. Grimmer

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S3, E13: Adam Falkner on Queer Identity and Writing Our Internal Contradictions

The Poetry Vlog (TPV): A Poetry, Arts, & Social Justice Teaching Channel

23 minutes 4 seconds

5 years ago

S3, E13: Adam Falkner on Queer Identity and Writing Our Internal Contradictions

Watch the YouTube episode here: (https://youtu.be/26HAAyWZPD0)

Poet and educator Adam Falkner reads his original work and discusses the value of telling our stories, as well as the value in exploring queer identity by writing into our internal contradictions.

About Adam:

Dr. Adam Falkner is a poet, educator and arts & culture strategist. He is the author of Adoption (Winner of the 2017 Diode Editions Chapbook Award) and The Willies (Button Poetry, 2020), and his work has appeared in a range of print and media spaces including on programming for HBO, NBC, NPR, BET, in the New York Times, and elsewhere. A former high school English teacher in New York City’s public schools, Adam is the Founder and Executive Director of the pioneering diversity consulting initiative, the Dialogue Arts Project, in which capacity he develops and facilitates trainings for schools, companies and cultural institutions across the country. Adam has toured the United States as a guest artist, lecturer and trainer for thousands of students, educators and corporate employees, and was the featured performer at President Obama’s Grassroots Ball at the 2009 Presidential Inauguration. He holds a Ph.D. in English and Education from Columbia University.

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Season 3 of The Poetry Vlog is supported by The Simpson Center for the Humanities, with support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Jack Straw Cultural Center.